Wisconsin guard Ben Brust launches his eventual buzzer-beating, game-tying heave at the end of regulation Saturday. The Badgers eventually beat Michigan, 65-62, in overtime. AP photo

MADISON, Wis. -- Michigan coach John Beilein put an end to any future debate with his first statement Saturday afternoon.

He told his team to foul Wisconsin up three with less than three seconds to go in regulation.

Obviously they didn't, and as a result, the Wolverines went home with a loss.

"We tried to foul, that was the instruction coming out," Beilein said after Michigan's 65-62 overtime loss at Wisconsin. "We had two fouls to give, go foul. (Wisconsin's Ben Brust) turned the corner on Caris (LeVert) and he couldn't get it done in time."

After Tim Hardaway Jr. buried a 3-pointer that appeared to give Michigan (21-3, 8-3 Big Ten) a victory, Wisconsin dialed up a play to get Brust a look just over halfcourt.

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said he expected Beilein to attempt to foul, and told his team to expect it to.

The Badgers still managed to avoid a call, though, as Brust's running bomb at the horn sent the game into overtime -- eventually leading to a three-point win and a court-storm for Wisconsin.

"Sometimes it goes the other way, too, and you take them when you can get them," Ryan said. "John had his guys ready. They knew what to do at the end. Our guy hit a tough shot.

"Ben Brust hit a tough shot."

Brust wasn't done, though, his fourth triple of the game with less than 40 seconds to play in overtime -- over LeVert again -- was the ultimate difference in the game. Brust went 4 of 10 from the floor, 4 of 7 from downtown.

As a team, Wisconsin went 10 of 24 from behind the arc -- Michigan went 5 of 18.

Asked if LeVert's defense on Brust's second 3-pointer was good enough, Beilein replied "no."

"No, the scouting report on (Brust) was to make him drive the ball to the basket," Beilein said. "We have some guys in there going through this for the first time. We put Caris in there for defense and he's a very good defender.

"He happened to make a mistake. ... He was not a guy you want to give that type of room to."

The buzzer-beating 3-pointer was obviously a heart-breaking moment for the Wolverines, and it was actually the second time in three years that the Badgers have hurt Michigan at the horn -- as Josh Gasser beat the Wolverines in Ann Arbor with a banked-in 3-pointer in 2011.

After the game, Ryan told a story about how the first shot he ever hit as a high school basketball player was a banked-in shot at the top of the key -- a hoop his high school coach tried to waive off because Ryan "didn't call" glass.

Brust didn't call glass, he didn't need it.

And now, Michigan's forced to pick up the pieces.

"We wanted to keep everybody in front of us," Beilein said. "He turned the corner just enough to where we couldn't foul him.